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Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 9, 2003 @05:42AM from the well-the-server-half-anyway dept.

waytoomuchcoffee writes "Valve has announced "immediate availability" of a linux 64-bit dedicated Counterstrike server, designed to run on AMD's upcoming Opteron. This follows on the heels of Unreal Tournament 2003, previously reported on Slashdot. Gamespy has a related story up on a presentation of the future of 64-bit gaming (sponsored by AMD) at last week's Game Developers Conference. As Intel is in no hurry to make the jump to 64-bit desktops, this leaves AMD to court the gaming market."

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Yes ... by B3ryllium · 2003-03-09 05:44 · Score: 4, Funny

64-bit gaming IS moronic ... no way I can afford it :)
1. Re:Yes ... by Alien+Being · 2003-03-09 15:07 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  "One day I'll be able to sit on the cutting edge"
  
  Don't try this at home.
Nonsense! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-09 05:47 · Score: 5, Funny

I've been 64-bit gaming for years!! hasn't anyone heard of a Nintendo-64?!?!
64 bits!!!! by Imazalil · 2003-03-09 05:51 · Score: 5, Funny

64 bits BAHHH, back in my day we had 2, and we were happy with the both of them! Youngsters.

but can you imagine... how may players could be on one server tht has over 4 gigs ram, 4 of them athlon 64 cpus, and one massive pipe to the net. Imagine your favorite CS map, but with 500 people on it at once... chicken shoot.

Ohh yeah and can you imagine a soviet beowulf cluster of these?

wow... my first all in one post. Lord help me.
I don't have a problem! by JPriest · 2003-03-09 05:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Just because I bought a 64 bit Athlon rack server and an OC3 line for my CS server does not mean I have a problem. You have a problem!

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n-Bit gaming by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-09 06:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Everyone talking about gaming in terms of bits should be shot on sight...
Re:Cool! by gl4ss · 2003-03-09 06:03 · Score: 4, Funny

they're gridlocked in a situtation with 3drealms, valve wants the vaporware title of the year and 3drealms doesn't want to give it!

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makes sense... by miketang16 · 2003-03-09 06:06 · Score: 5, Funny

As Intel is in no hurry to make the jump to 64-bit desktops...

Well yea, have you SEEN Intel's attempt at 64 bits?

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cheater by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-09 06:09 · Score: 4, Funny

now people can cheat tiwce as fast as before?
Re:mooooooovin on up by NerdSlayer · 2003-03-09 06:12 · Score: 3, Funny

Because you're a sterotypical slashdotter.
Re:64bit? by odyrithm · 2003-03-09 06:38 · Score: 2, Funny

Ill end up getting moderated offtopic for this but its worth it..

When I was in school at the time the jaguar came out, I remeber a mate of mine who thought that becauase it had 4 64bit processers(thats what he thought), 32 bit sound and what not ment it added up to (((64*4)+32)+N)bits or something like that.. its really crazy.. but thats how it is.. the bigger the number the better the "bang!"

At the end of the day you have to laugh..

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WHOA! What about the Commodore 64?!? by ScumSucker · 2003-03-09 06:57 · Score: 5, Funny

I was 64 bit gaming on that in the early 1980s! Oh wait, that was 64 kB. Almost the same thing I guess....
64-bit counterstrike ... why? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-09 07:01 · Score: 1, Funny

Somehow, buying a 64-bit machine to host dedicated counterstrike games is a bit perplexing.

Given a large enough pipe to the internet, and a bandwidth bill i don't care about, my 1ghz athlon thunderbird with PC-133 ram and 5400 RPM drives will already comfortably run a 32 player game. Why do we need better hardware for this?
quote me by 3ryon · 2003-03-09 07:22 · Score: 5, Funny

64 bits ought to be enough for anybody.

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And on a related note by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-09 08:19 · Score: 2, Funny

Valve has announced "immediate availability" of TF2 next week
Re:advantage ? by Bender_ · 2003-03-09 10:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Fixed point arithmetic is probably slower than floating point on a x86, because shifts and imuls also slow..
Re:Jaguar was even earlier.. by Skraut · 2003-03-09 16:28 · Score: 2, Funny

I always wondered. Would a Dual Athlon machine be called a BiAthlon?

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